During the DXpedition

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January 29, 2018

Last week we got our QSLs ready from the printer house . It seems to be very nice four side full colour card with nice St Barth pictures. During last weekend TO2SP Central QSL bureau with great help of local Hams SP6AEG and SP6EF worked very hard in order toRead More …

November 29, 2017

TO2SP DXpedition team L-R: K1CC, SP6EQZ, SP6IXF, SP3CYY, SP3GEM,SP6JIU Our DXpedition is rapidly coming to a close. Today is our last full day on St. Barts. Late in the afternoon we are taking down most of our antennas, leaving just one or two for the night. We are flyingRead More …

November 28, 2017

Conditions for the contest deteriorated significantly following a week of good propagation the week before. We started setting up for the contest too late and ended up with a late start. Our two SSB ops spent the weekend on the WARC bands on RTTY and SSB all weekend with theirRead More …

November 24, 2017

The bands are slowly getting better. The CQWW CW contest is coming up shortly in a few hours. We’d really appreciate a QSO with everyone on as many bands as possible, whether you’ve worked us before or not. Once again, we are offering a souvenir from St. Barthelemy for allRead More …

November 23, 2017

No turkey dinner here, we’re all taking turns at the radio or sleeping. The pool is delightful during operating breaks and the weather is always the same – beautiful!! We had no running water for 1 ˝ days, it turns out we depleted the water storage tanks under the houseRead More …

November 21, 2017

Another day on St. Barts – the weather is always the same, it’s sunny with a daytime temperature of 84F (29C) and 78F (26C) at night, with very little day-to-day variation. There’s a mild breeze and of course it’s quite humid. We have our stations set up in the livingRead More …

November 20, 2017

After a very shaky start since Tuesday, all good news to report today. Our last suitcase arrived yesterday at 5 PM so we are now operating in full force. We reconfigured our station with the last amplifier and the missing computers and now have 3 fully operational stations on theRead More …

November 18, 2017

As usual, good news and bad news (but mostly good!). Our daily trip to the airport yesterday resulted in 3 out of 5 remaining pieces of baggage arriving. There are still 2 pieces somewhere in the Caribbean with our 3rd and 4th radios… The good news is that the bagsRead More …

November 16, 2017

So here we are on St. Barts on day 2 and still no luggage… We drove to the airport to check the status and were told that our luggage is now on St. Martin. We can see St. Martin from our QTH, it’s only a 10-minute flight. However, we wereRead More …

November 15, 2017

We left on Monday November 13 by car from Wroclaw to Berlin and spent the night in Berlin. Our flight to Paris Charles deGaulle was at 6 AM the next morning. We were successful in our airport transfer in Paris within our narrow 3 hour time window. We were nowRead More …